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Not a promo, but still.
I can see that you are replying to this thread, and I can read your edit about "being a man", etc. I think you're a little emotionally rattled and angry on this one, I'm not. Probably best you just log off and enjoy the fights.
Agreed.I'll let it die there, give you the equivalent of a handshake. got no problem with you.
I see guys like Bill Apter and Meltzer as life long fans that have parlayed it into business. I have no problem with them, but I don't hold them up either. I've done journalism irl, so I don't hold a 'wrestling journalists' opinions up either. Journalists are trained in different writing and information gathering skills and aren't experts in anything, including journalism.
Just because a person has seen a lot of wrestling doesn't necessarily mean they have the analytic skills to assess it. For example, if you watch basketball, Skip Bayless has been covering the LA beat for about 30 years as a journalist. He knows nothing about basketball, not an expert opinion, he can't look at a play and figure out what happened or how offenses and defenses truly work. He should be able to, considering he played high school basketball, but he clearly can't. Sure he could tell you how scored how many points 20 years ago and give some decent anecdotes, but he can't break it down and truly compare and contrast.
How you would determine who is HOF worthy would depend on the criteria used. I think my criteria would differ from a lot of people's. I wouldn't place as much emphasis on drawing capacity as I would all around talent, skill and memorable moments. If I was starting a HOF for acting I wouldn't put Keanu Reeves ahead of Daniel Day Lewis, even though he drew more money. So, I don't really hold my opinion over anyone else and take myself that seriously, nor unconditionally accept another's as gospel. People give their opinions, I listen and have a chat about it, it doesn't go further than that.
Damn, I forgot all about PWIR.
The deal with Austin, yeah, we had a little heat over that," he said. "The match was supposed to go 12, 15 minutes. Austin wasn't happy about doing the job so he went down with a bogus knee injury and it kind of took away from me and everything... He said, 'I blew my knee out, I blew my knee out. Cover me, cover me.' I did the cover and got the 1-2-3. That's, as I point out in the book, there was a change in wrestlers' attitude then. It wasn't about passing the torch and what can you do for the company, it was more of a me type of time where you wanted to make sure what you did didn't hurt your chances of going somewhere else rather than the old school deal where, 'Hey, I'm passing the torch to someone else.'"
He said part of the issue was the politics behind the scenes. At the time in WCW, Austin was perceived to be part of a fading political power-base led by Ric Flair, and Duggan being booked to beat Austin was part of Hulk Hogan exerting his power and helping his friends, such as Duggan.
"Yeah, there was definitely two camps at WCW," he said. "There was the Hulk Hogan camp that I was proud to be part of, and of course the Ric Flair.
Do you post on Kayabe Memories?So did everybody else. It's dead. Zain is trying to reboot with a different name and a new game plan.